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The real barrier to getting more women to the top is the unsexy but immensely difficult issue of time commitment: Today's top jobs in major organizations demand 60-plus hours of work a week.

阻止更多女性晋升高层的真正障碍是时间上的付出，虽然这看起来一点都不冠冕堂皇，但却是个非常棘手的问题：现今大公司的高级职位都要求一周工作60小时以上。

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And most of you will never have any reason to use it. It's just an app that saves people time& and the people, in this case, are the decidedly unsexy demographic: finance professionals.

你们中的大多数可能永远都不会想到要用这款软件，这是一款专为一板一眼的财务专业人士打造的节省时间的应用软件。

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or does your negative perception of your thighs make you feel unsexy and unlovable?

还是你对自己大腿的这种消极看法使得你自己看起来并不性感和讨人厌？

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The less a husband thinks of his wife as a sexual being, the more functional and 'unsexy' his gifts will become.

丈夫看待妻子时，性伴侣的成分越少，他送给妻子的礼物就更实用，更不性感。

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As sex scandals go, this one was scandalously unsexy.

就性丑闻而言，这桩丑闻毫无性感可言。

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Data is inherently unsexy, but it can jumpstart an area's recovery.

数据一向很枯燥，但能极大推动一个地区的重建

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Environmental issues global warming, air pollution, wind power and hybrid cars are almost as much discussed in Asia as they are in Europe or the Americas, but the related if unsexy subject of building standards merits hardly a murmur.

在亚洲，人们讨论全球变暖、空气污染、风能和混合动力汽车等环境问题的热烈程度几乎与欧美不相上下，但相关的建筑标准方面鲜有行动。

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Tackle unsexy jobs that big companies find inconvenient or, if they face high labor costs, unprofitable to manage.

有些工作大公司不方便开展，或者需要较高的劳动力成本，而且没有利润，而小公司恰好可以以此为切入点。

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It's socially harmful: Actively considering marriage when you're20 or21 seems so sappy and so unsexy.

首先，这于社会无益：而在20、21岁时就积极考虑结婚问题的人则显得很愚蠢。

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